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“Testing Fan” Mitt Romney Serves Up Anti-Teacher Union Red Meat on FOX News...
James Kitfield writing in the National Journal takes this snippet from Mitt Romney’s interview with Bret Baier: Romney reiterated his support for the testing requirements in the 2001 “No Child Left...
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‘High School Exit Test Scores Have Been Found to Rise, While Graduation Rates...
Huffington Post education writer Joy Resmovits interviewed scholars who conducted a National Research Council study which overviewed “incentives and test-based accountability in public schools.” Their...
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Don’t Be Fooled By Rick Scott’s Clever Rhetoric on High-Stakes Testing
Desperate for a PR winner to defend his high-stakes tests regime, Rick Scott may have found one with a simple rhetorical tool: Change the wording. One now. One later. Let’s take a look: “Parents and...
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Punching Holes in Jeb Bush’s NAEP-Based “Florida Miracle” Myth
Full disclosure: During the years of the hyperpartisan Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, I’d grown to loathe Democrats, their operatives and media cheerleaders. My turn the channel...
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Jeb Bush’s Betrayal of Special Needs Kids AND Conservative Values in...
Jeb Bush wanted Arne Duncan’s NCLB waiver for Florida even though Marco Rubio said Duncan didn’t have the authority to grant them. Standing alone, this is a stunning tidbit that’s gone unnoticed by the...
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Miami-Dade Superintendent: “A Flawed Accountability System….That Needs Reform”
Influential Miami-Dade Superintendent of Schools Alberto Carvalho ripped into Florida’s entire accoutability system in an afternoon press conference today. Miami Herald reporters Laura Insensee and...
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“State Blinded By Its Devotion to School Testing”
Tampa Bay Times columnist John Romano takes the latest breakdown in Florida’s test-dominated accountability system and leads to where fault really lies. Florida’s education policy-makers are...
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Marco Rubio’s Flip-Flop on Education
The republican establishment in Washington and every state capital talks education policy in an echo chamber. Bobby Jindal’s now struck down state-wide voucher bill was seen as a righteous holy...
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Tony Bennett’s Desperate, Disengenuous Defense of Common Core
Sun Sentinel reporter Anthony Man was in attendance when Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett made a speech to Broward Workshop’s State of Our County forum on April 12. Bennett focused his...
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Corporate Education Reform Continues to Lose Conservative Intellectuals
Many conservative republicans are considering the once unthinkable: The Bush’s were wrong about education. President George W. Bush with No Child Let Behind and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush with...
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